Ah say ... Ah SAY ... That's JOKE, son ... Laugh!
Posted on 12/30/2004 11:00:21 AM PST by Ellesu
The cast member on the Dukes of Hazard movie that had the filmmakers scratching their heads has not been publicity-drenched Jessica Simpson or her rabble-rousing smart-ass co-star, Johnny Knoxville.
It's the General Lee, the bright orange 1969 Dodge Charger central to all Duke boys escapades. More specifically, it's the Confederate Flag emblazoned on the General's roof, a symbol that has become quite the object of controversy since the original TV series' seven-season run starting in 1979.
The filmmakers didn't want to alienate modern audiences, the Wall Street Journal reported recently in a story headlined "Flag wavering." Nor did the moviemakers want to anger long-time fans by tinkering with the Warner Bros show. "So they struck a compromise with the studio."
Quoting a source involved with making the film, the Journal says the film includes scenes where the flag is "derided as an inappropriate symbol of the dark past."
For example, Bo and Luke ask a group of African-American college students for directions. "Is this a joke? Some kind of reality show?" one of them asks. Bo, the dimmer of the Dukes, explains the flag is cool and that their friend Cooter, a Civil War buff, painted it when he fixed the car. But Luke understands, and explains to Bo that some people find the flag offensive and a "symbol of slavery." That Luke, he always was perty' smart.
As an Upper Midwest Yankee, I have to say that Georgian's idea is wrong!!!!!(as is Hollywood's idea of the South)
Whether a man downs a half flask or a full flask - aside from B/A ratios, when they're drunk, they're drunk.
Then why are you an American? Do you fly the flag of the United States?
The fragments that are left are still more than the rest of the world gets. By the way, it's these United States of America.
Ah say ... Ah SAY ... That's JOKE, son ... Laugh!
No one disputes that he could not hadle his liquor. The lie is in the insinuation that he DRANK as in, all the time, regularly, as in he was always drunk.
High school bf had a Charger during the mid-70's!
Nice touch with the semantics. That argument is for another time.
The war is over. All patriotic Americans need to unite, and fight the enemies of the modern day.
Guilty of that myself. I've also a low tolerance of alcohol and seldom drink. If I do, it takes very little to get me lightheaded so I don't ever have more than a half glass of wine, one beer, or one ounce of bourbon and that's about a half dozen times a year.
"American black" dittoes...I think that when people say that they "want to go back to the way things were", they mean when things seemed so much more simple...
To quote President Bush, when Rush interviewed him late in August (talking about the previous ambivalence about dealing, or not dealing, with threats), "Those days are gone."
I know what you mean, though. And I'm too dang fat to jump into my car...I'd probably take out the window, the steerin' wheel, and both of my legs tryin' to do it.
Understood. See #114....;-)
The Union had numerical advantages, but that was negated by the need to subdue a huge land with significant armies of its own. The Confederacy only had to avoid losing and keep up the fight. They gave up the fight. If the lost cause had been so noble to begin with, it would have never become a lost cause. When large confederate areas were regained by the Union, many confederate soldiers lost their heart for the fight. They were fighting for their homes, not for the plantation owners' beloved peculiar institution and not for any cause that needs revival today.
More PC crap.
:-)
Thanks.
OOPS!
That was 'sposed to be #130.
< all red faced and embarassed >
Another Pop Hottie: Lindsay Lohan
She works just fine, but so does Jessica with me.
Hell, if they want to be politically correct ,put Halley Berry in the role. Ha!
Read my tagline...
Is that "Stifler" playing Luke? cool.
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